"It is difficult to say. In the existing data we cannot find an explanation for the effect, but we will now continue to study this process at a cellular and molecular level," says Olaf Bergmann. FromScience Daily In addition, the researchers found that these cumulative small genetic effects...
Three potential meanings of the word "explanation" are pointed to: an everyday meaning, a pedagogical鈥損rofessional meaning and a scientific meaning of the word. It is suggested that the co-existence of these three potential meanings has communicative consequences in science education....
Terms used in science popular texts addressed to the mass reader could fall into two groups: those that don't need any additional explanation and those that might be misunderstood or not understood by the addressee without additional explanation.Common categorial concepts (e.g. hypothesis, method,...
There are different kinds of entities to be explained in the social sciences: events or phenomena; scientific laws or theories; the functioning of systems; the meaning of expressions, ideas, or behaviors; actions in the sense of their (moral) justification. The most important kind are events ...
You operationalize your explanation so that you can provide some understanding of how confident you are in it. This has specific meaning for forensic science because in a legal situation, you have a burden of proof obligation. Burden of proof is the ability of the evidence to sway the conclusi...
Now to the question of why explanation is so important to science. Explanation’s purpose, i.e., the goal of explanation, is what makes it the most important aim of science. Successful explanations increase our understanding of the world around us.Footnote3It is in virtue of this understandin...
This is a sense of ontologies that appears in the first mention of the term in computer science, namely, in the visionary paper entitled “Another look at data” by George Mealy (1967): “Data are fragments of a theory of the real world, and data processing juggles representations of ...
A principle in science and philosophy, much applied in medicine, that one should try to account for an observed phenomenon in the simplest possible way and should not look for multiply explanations of its different aspects. For instance, a range of symptoms and signs occurring together should alw...
theory(a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena) Sense 2 Meaning: A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structur...
in question. On the other hand, mathematics is often used as a source of concepts, in the sense that for instance physical concepts often involve mathematical notions. Thus, the role of mathematics in science is not limited to its explanatory power, mathematics also has heuristic functions, ...